Wait. Did I miss something? @ricardo.gomes did you just get access to the EAP or were you in from the beginning? Did they open it back up again @Sheerine Baucum ? I checked all my emails just now and I haven't received any notifications. We truly, truly still want to (need to) be a part of this and get in on some Confluence automations. Please let me know if I missed something or if there are any updates on when.
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November 17, 2022 edited
@T Howard@Tomislav Tobijas _Koios_ We did not reopen the EAP, but will be releasing very soon (slated for Q1 2023 on the public roadmap). However, this functionality will only available to premium and enterprise instances. Are you both on premium/enterprise instances?
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November 17, 2022 edited
@Ricardo_Gomes Yes, we plan to include global configuration at launch so that site admins can limit whether space admins can view and/or edit automation rules just like Jira does.
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November 29, 2022 edited
@Steven Rhodes At this time Automation will not be available in Confluence Standard, however, we plan to explore making this available in other editions. Thank you!
@Sheerine Baucum Thanks for sharing. Automation is essential when it comes to managing large amounts of space and pages. From a knowledge management perspective, the function I miss most is the ability to set lifecycle rules at a template level so we can define for each type of template when it needs to be validated and when it needs to be automatically archived (for instance, policies vs. meeting notes). The lack of lifecycle automation causes stale information and harms the trust level of the knowledge consumers. We would greatly appreciate it if you could add this functionality to the standard version. Thanks.
YES!! This is going to be HUGE (especially with your upcoming plans to change notifications, including stopping sending when an attachment is added to a page.)
After playing with this for a bit, I am hugely excited by the potential here. I'm also very curious about how the guts of this works, because as it stands I am not able to wring a ton of usefulness out right now:
In Jira I can pretty much figure out any smart value I want by looking at the API, but this doesn't seem true for Confluence. Looking at the API, I'd expect the smart value {{page.space.name}} to return the name of the space a page is in, but I am only able to get this through {{space.name}}.
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@Ari Fellman I may be wrong, but I think this feature is being built only for Confluence Cloud. Self-hosted deployment types (Server and DC) are out of scope. If I'm wrong, someone please correct me.
If you're not going to enable this even in limited form for Confluence Standard, please remove this from the space settings. Its misleading and gives an error. It would be great if Confluence Standard users could participate in this with limited amount of executions like in Jira Standard.
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February 1, 2023 edited
@Ari Fellman Automation is available in Confluence Cloud Premium only. We do not plan to expand outside of our cloud offerings at this time.
Regarding your question around functionality - Automation can be used to automatically create structures of new spaces using templates and pages. Thank you!
Would really like to find support for using an Incoming Webhook. Any POST I do to the generated URL always receives a null response from automation.atlassian.com and the rule does not show as triggered in Confluence automation audit log. Can't find enough complete documentation on incoming webhooks. Anyone having success with incoming webhooks?
Last week we have silently released our own automation implementation in the Better Content Archiving for Confluence Cloud app!
TLDR; It offers auto-archive for Confluence Standard, Premium and Enterprise! Plus it offers auto-delete for all plans, including Confluence Free.
The new feature allows defining automation schemes which are collections of automations and which can be applied to any Confluence space. An automation itself is defined by:
🕐 a schedule (when to execute?)
📄 a CQL query (which pages or blog posts to process?)
⚡ and an action (what to do with them?)
It is an extensible framework that introduces the "archive" and "delete" actions in this release. If there is interest, we will introduce additional actions in the future.
My team has been rocking Confluence Automation since day 1, and wow, this thing is powerful! With the rate of improvement, we just keep finding more and more tasks that we'll happily hand off to our Confluence robot friends to do for us. We've also learned a whole bunch of best practices that we just shared in a new video: https://youtu.be/bWoQCCQupjw
Hello Team. I am not a Confluence admin and I have around 200 pages with macros and need to delete and add another macro since we switched apps. Is there any way I / admin can automate this? Thanks!
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